VOA常速英语2019--2020年马丁·路德·金日

（单词翻译）

On the third Monday of each January, Americans honor the memory of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, a Baptist minister from the southern state of Alabama, was a leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, advocating social change through non-violent means. On January 15th, he would have celebrated¹ his ninety first birthday.

每年1月的第三个星期一，美国人都要纪念马丁·路德·金博士。马丁·路德·金博士是南方阿拉巴马州浸信会教堂的牧师，是美国民权运动的领袖，主张通过非暴力手段进行社会变革。1月15日，是第90个马丁·路德·金日。

Believing that "change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability², but comes through continuous struggle," Dr. King organized and participated in mass-action boycotts³, sit-ins, peaceful marches and other non-violent acts of civil disobedience.

相信“改变不会随着不可避免的车轮滚滚而来，而是通过不断的奋斗而来，”金博士组织和参与了大规模的抵制、静坐、和平游行和其他非暴力温和反抗行动。

Dr. King once stated that "an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment⁴ in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice⁵, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." And so, activists⁶ sometimes deliberately⁷, but peacefully and respectfully, broke laws aimed at segregating⁸ the white citizenry from the non-white, thus hoping to bring attention to the inherent unfairness of such legislation.

金博士曾经说过，“一个人违反了法律，良心告诉他这是不公正的，他心甘情愿地接受监禁的惩罚，以唤起社会对其不公正的良心，这实际上是对法律的最高尊重。”因此，活动人士有时会故意地，但以和平和尊重的方式，违反旨在将白人公民与非白人公民隔离开来的法律，从而希望引起人们对此类立法固有的不公平的关注。

Thus, when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks broke the law in Montgomery, Alabama, by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, and subsequently was jailed for her transgression⁹, her plight¹⁰ generated national attention and increasing sympathy for her cause across the country.

因此，当一位名叫罗莎·帕克斯的黑人女裁缝在阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利市违反法律，在公交车上拒绝为一名白人乘客让座，并因此被判入狱时，她的遭遇引起了全国的关注，全国上下对她的所作所为引发越来越多的同情。

Dr. King’s, and the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest achievement came in 1964, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act which outlawed¹¹ segregation¹² in public places, as well as employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender¹³ or national origin. The Civil Rights Act spawned¹⁴ the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which forbids racial discrimination in voting, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discrimination in housing and financing for the purchase of a home, based on race and national origin.

马丁·路德·金博士和民权运动最伟大的成就是1964年通过的《民权法案》，该法案禁止在公共场所进行种族隔离，以及基于种族、肤色、宗教、性别或国籍的就业歧视。《民权法案》催生了1965年的《投票权法案》和1968年的《公平住房法案》。1965年的《投票权法案》禁止种族歧视，1968年的《公平住房法案》禁止基于种族和国籍在住房和购房融资方面的歧视。

Dr. King was thirty nine years old when he died by an assassin's bullet on April 4th, 1968. But his legacy¹⁵ lives on. In the fullness of time, all segregationist¹⁶ laws were repealed¹⁷, and discrimination is a legally punishable – and punished – offence.

1968年4月4日，39岁的金博士死于暗杀者的子弹。但他的成果仍然存在。随着时间的推移，所有的种族隔离法律都被废除了，歧视在法律上是一种惩罚和惩罚的罪行。

Dr. King's life is well summed up in his own words: "The quality, not the longevity¹⁸, of one's life is what is important."

金博士的一生可以用他自己的话来很好地总结:“重要的是生命的质量，而不是长度。”